December 9

Events

• 1898: Prince George of Greece arrives in Crete as the High Commissioner of Crete.
• 1963: Constantine Karamanlis resigned from the leadership of his party, National Radical Union (ERE), and left for an 11 year self-imposed exile to Paris, France.

Births

• 1859: Georgios Drosinis, writer, poet
• 1883: Alexandros Papagos, Prime Minister and the only Field Marshall in Greek military history.

Deaths

• 638: Sergius I, Patriarch of Constantinople.

Namesday

Greek Orthodox

• Saint Anne